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Temperamental! Prints In The Collection Of Bryn Mawr College Jan 2019

Temperamental! Prints In The Collection Of Bryn Mawr College

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Brochure for an exhibition held at Bryn Mawr College March 22, 2019-June 2, 2019, organized by Tessa Haas (A.B./M.A. student), Anya Prussin (Class of 2019), Talia Shiroma (Class of 2019), and Maeve White (A.B./M.A. student): the students in a Fall 2018 exhibition seminar taught by Professor Christiane Hertel and Carrie Robbins (Bryn Mawr College Ph.D. 2013, Curator/Academic Liaison). Brochure design by Nathanael Roesch (Bryn Mawr College Ph.D. 2017).


Mirrors & Masks: Reflections And Constructions Of The Self, Steven Z. Levine, Carrie Robbins Jan 2017

Mirrors & Masks: Reflections And Constructions Of The Self, Steven Z. Levine, Carrie Robbins

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Catalogue of an exhibition held at Bryn Mawr College March 23, 2017-June 4, 2017, curated by Steven Z. Levine and Carrie M. Robbins and students in the year-long course "Mirroring the Self/Exhibiting the Self." The exhibition, organized by 11 student curators considers the role of mirrors, masks, makeup, and masquerade in explorations of the self across the centuries and cultures that are represented in Bryn Mawr College’s Art & Artifacts Collection.


Application Of Pixe To The Study Of Renaissance Style Enamelled Gold Jewelry, Marianne Weldon, J. Carlson, S. Reedy, C. P. Swann Jan 1996

Application Of Pixe To The Study Of Renaissance Style Enamelled Gold Jewelry, Marianne Weldon, J. Carlson, S. Reedy, C. P. Swann

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This study examines and compares three pieces of Renaissance style gold and enameled jewelry owned by the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA. These are a 16th century Hat Badge of Adam and Eve, a 19th century Fortitude Pendant and a Diana Pendant presumed to be of the 16th century (The Walters Art Gallery, Jewelry, Ancient to Modern (Viking, New York, 1979)), Ref. [1]. PIXE spectroscopy was applied to examine the elemental composition of the gold and of the enamels. Compositional differences, including the use of post-Renaissance colorants, were found between the enamels in separate regions of each of the …